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Dow Today: Cisco Systems (CSCO) Higher

Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link.

The
Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI) is trading down 11.0 points at 16,426 as of Monday, Jan 13, 2014, 10:40 a.m. ET. During this time, 99.8 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 358.2 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,416 issues advancing vs. 1,461 declining with 165 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:
CSCO), which is sporting a 52-cent gain (+2.3%) bringing the stock to $22.74. Volume for Cisco Systems currently sits at 18.1 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 46.1 million shares.

Cisco Systems has a market cap of $118.11 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. Shares are down 0.9% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 3.1%.

Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP) and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 12, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Cisco Systems as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.